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ragged Lord of Enniskillen, or whether he 

 has been gathered to his mighty forefathers, 

 and succeeded by his son, whose title, I pre- 

 sume, must have been Lord Maguire, not 

 Lord Cole, I cannot say. 



u However, this is his story. You recol- 

 lect the little island, which you see on your 

 left hand as you enter the town of Ennis- 

 killen by the northern bridge. It is not half- 

 a-dozen yards across, but it once contained 

 a cell, or kill, and is the real Enniskillen, 

 or Island of the Church, from which the 

 ancient lord took his title ; as, I presume, the 

 modern lord does now. Now, upon this 

 island depends the fate of the possessor of 

 that property and title. Whenever the flood 

 at Enniskillen rises high enough to cover 

 that island, both the one and the other pass 

 out of the family that holds them. If there 

 ever were lords Dei gratia, it is the lords of 

 Enniskillen. 



" Well, the story goes, that in Cromwell's 

 time the Maguires aided the other western 

 families, who had now sense enough to lay 

 aside their domestic feuds, and were making 

 good head against the Sassenagh ; when 

 there came on one of these lake floods, fol- 



